"The Right Stuff" was nominated for 8 Academy Awards in 1984, winning four. The underlying theme of the movie is that the United States did not achieve a successful space program until they acquired a substantial number of scientists in lab coats. In and around mission control lab coats were standard wear. In meetings with politicians and astronauts, lab coats were worn. Science was being done at nearly all times, hence a blossoming space program. Even while the scientists are celebrating after the launch of Alan Shepard they were wearing ties and formal wear while singing in German. Lab coats and ties.
Sunday, February 25, 2007
The Right Stuff
"The Right Stuff" was nominated for 8 Academy Awards in 1984, winning four. The underlying theme of the movie is that the United States did not achieve a successful space program until they acquired a substantial number of scientists in lab coats. In and around mission control lab coats were standard wear. In meetings with politicians and astronauts, lab coats were worn. Science was being done at nearly all times, hence a blossoming space program. Even while the scientists are celebrating after the launch of Alan Shepard they were wearing ties and formal wear while singing in German. Lab coats and ties.
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What about "Back to the Future"? You could make an equally cogent argument that time travel could not have been achieved without Doc Brown wearing a lab coat. No labcoat = no flux capacitor. end of story.
Perhaps, though some of the happenings in the plotline suggests that the movie is actually a fiction, or science-fiction. This blog is typically devoted to real-life scenarios where scientists in lab-coats remove an appendix shortly before it bursts into flames and exploding, sending shrapnel everywhere, or the case where lab-coated scientist tame Harry Stamper and coordinate his mission to split an asteroid with nuclear weapons.
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